Shelby Tanner got into a 500-hp blue buggy and traversed the most treacherous terrain available. Shelby is one the world’s premier “rock bouncers”. Bobby Tanner and his daughter, Shelby Tanner, both strapped into a 500-hp piece of tube steel with no bodywork and a massive suspension that hurtled them up the hill at full throttle.

Rock crawlers and rock bouncers have different views of the world . Traditional off-roaders see the rock bouncers as nothing but brute-force buzzsaws requiring no talent outside a heavy right foot. Bouncers, obviously, disagree, pointing to the skills needed to construct shock-proof drivetrains, high-travel suspensions and find a path that matches the power and traction.

Viagra Hill is a gigantic rock wall, familiar to off-roaders. It’s near Disney, Oklahoma. The Tanners rode up the wall during the annual Big Meat Run. The Tanner family is world-renowned for their rock crawling and rock bouncing.

Karen Osborn, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, has captured a series of never-before-recorded photographs of the fascinating creatures, which she collected while scuba diving off the coast of Mexico and California.

Sea butterflies, also known as pteropods, are related to snails but they use their muscular foot to swim through the ocean rather than creep along the ground.

Osborn snapped them in a shallow tank of clear water, after bringing them back from the open ocean to the Smithsoian’s research ship.

The photographs are helping her fellow zoologists decipher the impact pollution is having on the world’s oceans and the creatures in them.

It is already known that climate change is making our ocean’s more acidic, and this acid is harmful to certain types of pteropods as it dissolves their shells.

Sea butterflies come in different forms, and those without shells are not susceptible to the dangers of ocean acidification.

But the shell-less critters feed on those with shells.

As, such, if the ocean continues to become more acidic, their prime food source could disappear.

This in turn would endanger these predators and all the fish, squid and other aquatic animals that feed on them.

]]>http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/56250/sea-butterflies/feed/0sea_butterfliesHideaki Tailorsea_butterfliesEsea_butterfliesBsea_butterfliesDsea_butterfliesGsea_butterfliesFWOMAN FINDS GIANT KFC BUCKET!http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/57152/woman-finds-giant-kfc-bucket/
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/57152/woman-finds-giant-kfc-bucket/#commentsTue, 20 Jun 2017 18:40:43 +0000http://weeklyworldnews.com/?p=57152]]>Aleena Headrick says, “I was driving by, I saw this giant Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket in my yard, and I thought for sure I was hallucinating, so I called my teenagers who were at home and had them go outside.”

And I know what you’re thinking? The answer is no. There is no chicken in that seven foot bucket. Headrick tells me it appeared Thursday afternoon and she had no idea where it came from or who it belongs to. Maybe it’s a sign? We’ve heard of heavenly manna, but what about original recipe? Headrick says, “Too often we just need something to laugh about and so I put it on Facebook and told them that I would bring chicken to the next potluck.”

The bucket has already become a popular landmark. Headrick says people have been stopping to take pictures with it.

Freddie Taylor is Headrick’s landlord. He collects signs like this, and he says the bucket is quite a find. He says, “That bucket right there, if you notice it, it doesn’t say KFC. It says Kentucky Fried Chicken. That bucket’s probably forty years old.”

Taylor plans to have it mounted on a pole so it will be permanently displayed for all to see. But Headrick isn’t mad. She says it will make her house hard to miss. She says, “It’s unusual but it makes really landmarks when people come to our house. We can just say, ‘Come down to the giant KFC bucket and turn right.'”

Michigan authorities sent out drones to spray pesticides over the city to prevent damage by the swarm, which numbers about 50,000 locusts, said a spokeswoman for the City of Detroit.

The locust alert comes on the eve of the bankruptcy of Detroit. “First there was the collapse of the auto industry, then there was the financial collapse and the bankruptcy of the city and now… locusts,” said longtime resident, Jimmy Bellicort.

According to the Bible, a huge swarm of locusts was the eighth of 10 plagues God imposed on Egyptians to persuade Pharoah to free the ancient Hebrews from slavery. Many believe that Detroit is similar to Egypt and that the locusts are just the beginning of several plagues that will overtake the city.

“We are doomed!” said Alvin Johnson, who lives on Six Mile.

Locusts can have a devastating effect on buildings and car factories said the Mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing.

“[The locusts] may have ruined Pharaoh, but they will not ruin us,” said Bing.

Locusts are known to move with the wind, and the swarm was swept westward from the Middle East.

The writing was discovered in eastern China, and some of the markings etched on broken axes resemble a modern Chinese character.

The inscriptions on artifacts found at a relic site south of Shanghai are about 1,400 years older than the oldest written Chinese language. Chinese scholars are divided over whether the markings are words or something simpler, but they say the finding will shed light on the origins of Chinese language and culture.

The oldest writing in the world is believed to be from Mesopotamia, dating back slightly more than 5,000 years. Chinese characters are believed to have been developed independently.

Inscriptions were found on more than 200 pieces dug out from the Neolithic-era Liangzhu relic site.

The snails are potentially vicious and dangerous and they can carry meningitis. Scientists have warned anyone who comes in contact with them to – run!!

This woman lost her life to the giant snail:

“These snails look harmless and most people just laugh when we tell them that they are killers,” said Lacy Herbron of Sam Houston State University. “But these snails are killers. They are very dangerous and, in packs, can kill any human up to 300 pounds.”

A woman gardening in East Texas was attacked and killed while she was planting her petunias.

Governor Rick Perry has called in the National Guard to deal with the snail crisis. “We are Texans. We are not going to let a bunch of snails take us down,” said Governor Perry.

Meanwhile, Texans are arming themselves with special “Snail Guns” that can kill up to 500 snails in one shot. “We’re going to need a lot of them snail guns down here,” said Sheriff Johnny Jimjohn of Dallas. “We gots lots of snails to kill.”

PETA is trying to stop Texans from killing the snails. “They can rid the state of the pests without committing snail slaughter,” said a spokeperson for PETA>

The giant killer snails can lay 1,000 eggs per month, so there will be thousands of more killer snails in Texas – very soon.

Again, if you see a snail – run for your life!

]]>http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/56154/killer-snails-in-texas/feed/7killer_snailsTap Vannkiller_snailsDkiller_snailsCkiller_snailsBIRAN PLANS TO BOMB HOLLYWOODhttp://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/55237/iran-plans-to-bomb-hollywood/
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/55237/iran-plans-to-bomb-hollywood/#respondTue, 28 Mar 2017 14:53:51 +0000http://weeklyworldnews.com/?p=55237]]>Iran is planning to bomb Hollywood over the Oscar-winning movie Argo because of its ‘unrealistic portrayal’ of the country.

Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Sharmin daily, said today that French advisors are in Iran for talks with officials over how to destroy Hollywood.

The decision on the bombing reportedly came after a group of Iranian cultural officials and movie critics screened the film in a closed audience in a Tehran cinema.

Argo, which won the Best Picture Oscar this year, tells the story of the escape of six American hostages from the besieged U.S Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance met for a one-day conference called ‘The Plague of Hollywood’ on Monday night.

It said the ‘distortion of historical facts’ in films including 300 and Argo prompted them to meet and to arrange a nuclear attack on Hollywood.

Conference secretary Shibani Liberani was quoted as saying: “One of the main aims of the meeting is to unify all cultural and military communities in Iran against Hollywood.”

Last month Iranian officials dismissed Argo as pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda and state television called it an ‘advertisement for the CIA’..

Mohammed Hosseini, Iran’s Culture Minister, described the film as a ‘distorted history’.

Argo has been banned from Iranian cinemas, but bootleg copies are believed to be available.

Iran did not say when the bombing would begin… but Hollywood executives are saying they will counter with bombs of their own. Arnold Schwarzenegger is reportedly a consultant for Hollywood.

Why do we let these red-headed, ruddy-faced, potato-eating Paddy-lovers take over our city streets every March 17th?! These Blarney-tards get wasted, wear plaid skirts with no underwear and swing shillelaghs every other day of the year – why do they need another day to hop around in bowler hats.

And they don’t need a parade to direct them to the nearest bar. They can find a pub on their own – it’s usually where they live.

Everybody knows the Irish are some of the dumbest people on earth – they don’t even know you can use your arms when you dance! They think staring at a four-leafed shamrock is a better way to get money then actually having a job. The Irish are so lazy even Mexicans won’t pick them up for day labor.

Even Mayor Bloomberg hates St. Patrick’s Day. He recently said St. Patrick’s Day honors Irish-Americans who like to get “totally inebriated and hang out the window waving little Irish flags.” Hizzoner is right! And he’s short enough to be Irish!

Yeah, yeah… they’re good storytellers, but that’s because they lie about everything. That’s why they have so many freckles. Every time they lie they get a new one.

The Irish believe in leprechauns and pots of gold and fairies. Should we really be encouraging these people to drink? Bono is so drunk, he never even remembers to take off his sunglasses. Stack him on top of Colin Farrell and they’re still a foot shorter than the average American.

So folks, boycott St. Patrick’s Day! Don’t wear green. Don’t say “kiss me, I’m Irish” even though you’re a Puerto-Rican-Jew. Don’t let them pour green dye into your beer. And don’t stand anywhere near an Irishman unless you like urine and vomit!

Erin Go Away! End St. Patrick’s Day!

]]>http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/30447/ed-anger-says-i-hate-st-patricks-day/feed/32ed_anger_stpatsEd AngerLEPRECHAUNS ATTACK!http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/49503/leprechauns-attack/
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/49503/leprechauns-attack/#commentsThu, 16 Mar 2017 13:56:58 +0000http://weeklyworldnews.com/?p=49503]]>Wild leprechauns have moved into Seattle and are responsible for thousands of vicious attacks.

A large battalion of Leprechauns are carrying out vicious attacks in and around the city of Seattle.

The pint-sized brutes started moving into Seattle in February and were living peacefully, but they were allegedly setup a man was dancing with the wrong girl at a Belltown bar.

A massive brawl broke out between the Leprechauns and regular citizens in the bar. Officers arrived at the scene of a bar fight to find the man covered in blood and screaming in pain with his head held in his hands.

When officers asked who had attacked him, the man replied: “It was a bunch of leprechauns.”

That was beginning to the leprechaun mayhem in Seattle. Since then, hundreds of Seattle citizens have been attacked by leprechauns swinging shillelaghs. Most victims have only been bruised and battered. There have been no fatalities – yet.

The police are trying to round-up as many Leprechauns as possible, but the little green bouncing men are hard to wrangle. “They’re a lot faster than you’d think,” said one Seattle cop. “You think you have them in your grasp and then they hop out and leap above you.”

Some Seattle citizens are arming themselves to fight against the leprechauns. “I found a leprechaun gun on eBay. I bought it and I think I’m going to be safe,” said Jonathan Medwedin. “I also got myself a mahogany shillelagh. If I see one of them critters, I’m going to bop them on the head. They ain’t going to steal any of my stuff.”

Leprechauns supposedly have access to a pot of gold, but times have been hard even for leprechauns around the world, so they have been stealing and looting for the last year.

“We will rid our city of these varmints. Count on it,” said Seattle Police Chief, Frank London.

About 150 women from all over the world have been ordained by the Roman Catholic Church even though the church bans them from becoming priests.

Rosemarie Smead is starting her own congregation and is not worried about being excommunicated.

“It is a medieval bullying stick the bishops used to keep control over people and to keep the voices of women silent,” she said. “I am way beyond letting octogenarian men tell us how to live our lives.”

Several octogenarian priests sent her a letter that said simply: “Watch your back!”

Smead, a former Carmelite nun with a bachelor’s in theology and a doctorate in counseling psychology, wept throughout the ceremony.

According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, seventy percent of U.S. Catholics believe women should be allowed to be priests.

In a statement last week, Louisville Archbishop Marlon E. Mertz called the ceremony a “joyful event.”

But, according to Roman Catholic law ordaining a priest carries very serious penal sanctions in Church law. Any anybody that participated in the ordination will, most likely, burn in hell forever.

Pope Francis heard about the ordination and… he blew his lid:

The modern woman priest movement started in Austria in 2002, when seven women were ordained by the Danube River by an independent Catholic bishop. Other women were later ordained as bishops, who went on to ordain more women priests and deacons.

“As a woman priest, Rosemarie is leading, not leaving the Catholic Church, into a new era of inclusivity,” said Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan during her sermon Saturday. “As the Irish writer James Joyce reminded us, the word ‘Catholic’ means ‘Here comes everybody!'”

During the ordination ceremony, Smead wept openly as nearly everyone in the audience came up and laid their hands on her head in blessing.